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Inscribed Balustrade Railing Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Balustrade Railing Fragment (from Synagogue, Forecourt): Votive? Inscription, by Hippasias
- Date
- “Late in the building history of the Synagogue” (Kroll); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.111
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἀνανέωσις Ἱππασίου υἱ[οῦ - - - ]
- Inscription Translation
- “Renovation of Hippasias, son [ - - - ].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- RT 62
- Locus
- Syn FC Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E95 / N5 - N6 *96.50 - 96.40
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Forecourt, southwestern corner.
- Description
Left end of the railing of the Forecourt balustrade of white marble; broken at the right. The inscription is in one line.
- Dimensions
- H. ca. 0.15, W. 0.46, H. of letters 0.036.
- Comments
Robert comments upon the verb ἀνανεόω which supplants the earlier term ἐπισκευάζω in the Late Empire.
Kroll thinks that the dedicator of no. 541 is identical with the present one; he restores the name of the dedicator of no. 520 to [Ἱπ?]πάσιος and assumes he is identical with the dedicators of nos. 540 and 541; for D. Feissel’s correction, see no. 520 comm.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- L. Robert, Nouv. inscr. Sard. I, p. 53 n. 2; Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 38–39, no. 53; and p. 104, fig. 55 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 279–80, no. 119; SEG 51, 1658).
- Author
- GP